Caritas Cambodia is an official social development arm of the Catholic Church in Cambodia. It has been built on the values of Love, Concern, Justice, Peace Unity, Sharing and brotherhood. It draws inspiration from the Gospel and aims at integral development of people irrespective of race and creed. Hence the objectives of Caritas Cambodia specifically include the following.

To promote and strengthen activities that are aimed at the integral development of communities particularly to help in Sustainable Agriculture, empowerment program, economic program, Welfare program,

To protect and support the livelihoods recovery of food insecure households through the rehabilitation of rural community infrastructures damaged by the floods that broke out on September 9, Caritas Cambodia together with the support from The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) planned to provide food assistances to the most vulnerable groups in the most vulnerable areas.

Caritas Cambodia cooperated with National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM), and provincial authority provided the humanitarian assistance to the 1,446 displaced families on 6th and 8th February 2011 in Choam Khsant and Kulen district, Preah Vihear province – about 70km from the Cambodian and Thai clash border -- where they have been settling in the evacuation camps in schools, pagodas and under the trees.

Since the flood situation is still bad and the urgent need is still called for, Caritas Cambodia aims at providing more humanitarian aids to those who are the most affected flood victim.Kandal and Prey Veng are on alert after rising waters along the Mekong River killed 56 people and submerged more than 5,500 hectares of rice paddy.

Delegates from Caritas Germany were on a six day visit from 28 of November to 3 December to Caritas Cambodia’s programs in Kandal, Siem Reap, Battambang province and Phnom Penh. Mr. Kim Rattana, Executive Director and staffs of Caritas Cambodia welcomed the delegates and proceeded with their field visit to six programs. The delegates were accompanied by Ms. Ung Kim Oan, Mr. Yem Makara and Mr. Moeun Rithy from Caritas Cambodia.

About 200 Caritas Cambodia staffs were on a five-day retreat –Dec 12-16, 2011 to meet and share of their achievements in the previous year. The retreat is also conducted to renewal, team building, focusing work, build up and strengthening the relationship among the staff, find out about Caritas’s 5 years strategic plan, cheer up the staff and orienting new staff.